Mohr About... Apple and Google's sidelining sideloading

Both Apple and Google have been exposed this week practicing "malignant compliance", meaning they allegedly made changed to comply with regulation aimed at loosening their control over devices and apps, but behind the scenes taking steps to cease even more control than over "sideloading" (installing apps without going through their stores).
In this episode I explained the sneaky moves, and why they threaten making everything we do monitored and monetized.

TorrentFreak's coverage of Apple's intervention in 3rd-party app stores:
https://torrentfreak.com/apple-revokes-eu-distribution-rights-for-torrent-client-developer-left-in-the-dark/

Google's announcement:
https://developer.android.com/developer-verification

TheRegister's report about Google's developer criminalization move:
https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/26/android_developer_verification_sideloading/

Android Authority's coverage of the same decision:
https://www.androidauthority.com/android-developer-verification-requirements-3590911/

Sam Tucker's video about Google's move:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGGZU_Fgx9Y

List of supported devices for /e/OS:
https://doc.e.foundation/devices

List of supported devices for LineageOS:
https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/